“If you wish to be an Orthodox Christian you must
begin now, from this very day and hour and minute,
to love God and your fellow men. _is means: not to
act in an arbitrary way with people, not just saying
the first thing that enters your head, not picking fights
or quarrels with people over anything, big or small,
being constantly ready to ask forgiveness of them (and
to ask it more than you think is necessary), to have
compassion for them and fervently pray for them.”